California · Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
CCP §871.6: Nothing in this chapter affects the rules of law which determine the relief, if any, to be granted when a person constructs on his own land an improvement which encroaches on adjoining land.
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This statute preserves existing legal rules that determine what remedies apply when someone builds a structure on their own property that extends onto a neighbor's land.
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